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Missouri DNR Denies Horse Slaughter Permit

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Clearly noting federal budget restrictions, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources HAS turned down the permit request from Rains to butcher American horses for consumption by elite foreign interests.

The DNR said in a letter Thursday to David Rains, owner of Rains Natural Meats in Gallatin, that the agency has denied Rains’ permit request for his proposed horse slaughter operation because the new federal budget withheld funding for required federal inspections of equine slaughter facilities.

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Help Defeat Horse Eater’s Plan

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Call to Action from Vicki Tobin – VP of Equine Welfare Alliance Fringe Equine Blood Cult Attempts to Mislead Missouri Governor Normally, we just ignore these because they are so off the wall but we think this is one we should act upon. Duquette sent an email to […]

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Horse Slaughter: Permits Should All Be Denied

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Letter to the Editor by Lynne O’Toole as published in the News-Leader.com “If pro-horse-slaughter folks were serious about their stated concern for unwanted horses they would look for permanent solutions.” Rains Natural Meats has amended its previous application for a permit to slaughter horses, a permit application that […]

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Tainted Politician’s Attempts to Slaughter Horses Continue to Unravel

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The plant was supposed to open by summer’s end, employing four dozen people.

It might not have been the most appealing work: butchering hundreds of horses each day to fill dinner plates in Europe. But Rockville, Mo., population 166, needed jobs. So residents had embraced turning a defunct beef processing plant into the nation’s first horse slaughtering facility since 2006.

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